diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 06f0be549..22978c19d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 - Fixed HEADERS environment variable parsing [GH-188]
 - Fixed Azure group lookups [GH-190]
 - If a session is too large (over 4096 bytes) Pomerium will no longer fail silently. [GH-211]
+- Internal URLs like dashboard now start auth process to login a user if no session is found [GH-205].
 
   ## v0.0.5
 
diff --git a/proxy/handlers.go b/proxy/handlers.go
index b80559804..95793136f 100644
--- a/proxy/handlers.go
+++ b/proxy/handlers.go
@@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ func (p *Proxy) Proxy(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 func (p *Proxy) UserDashboard(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	session, err := p.sessionStore.LoadSession(r)
 	if err != nil {
-		log.FromRequest(r).Error().Err(err).Msg("proxy: load session failed")
-		httpErr := &httputil.Error{Message: err.Error(), Code: http.StatusBadRequest}
-		httputil.ErrorResponse(w, r, httpErr)
+		log.FromRequest(r).Debug().Str("cause", err.Error()).Msg("proxy: no session, redirecting to auth")
+		p.sessionStore.ClearSession(w, r)
+		p.OAuthStart(w, r)
 		return
 	}